Quotes About Concealment

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

I was still filled as before with an evil curiosity. There was a mystery about the existence of each one of them. I always felt that a part of their lives was concealed. What did they do when I was not there? I refused to believe that they had not better ways of amusing themselves. And I credited each of them with a secret which I pertinaciously tried to discover.

Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

La vérité d'un homme c'est d'abord ce qu'il cache.

Instead of answering the young man lifted up his robe, and showed the Sultan that, from the waist downwards, he was a block of black marble.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

No one could rival Arthur Less for his ability to exit a room while remaining inside it.

No one could rival Arthur Less for his ability to exit a room while remaining inside it. He sat, and his mind immediately left me behind.

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

Nobody bothered with him. His failures were private and invisible

d it was true she experienced even the strongest pleasures and poignancies down pretty deep. They tended not to make it all the way up to her face. [Lena]

The gap between what we say and what we feel is so big and dark that sometimes I think I'll fall into it and just keep falling

I shut my eyes and see a pocket of darkness. I want to fold myself flat and crisp, slip inside of it like a sheet of paper into an envelope.

A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.

ABDITIVE  (A'BDITIVE)   adj.[from abdo, to hide.] That which has the power or quality of hiding.Dict.  

The world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it

So much are the modes of excellence settled by time and place, that men may be heard boasting in one street of that which they would anxiously conceal in another.

Dispensing with the frivolity, he kissed her meaningfully. When at last he pulled away, her troubled expression alarmed him. What? Be careful, Hammond. No one will know I was here. She shook her head. Not that. Then what? You may have to put me on trial for my life. Please be careful that you don't make me fall in love with you first.

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.